RK Fauth
OSGF
Interdisciplinary Residency, Five-Week, Session IV
RK Fauth is a poet who writes about ecological grief, awe, and the un/natural world. Her debut poetry collection, A Dream in Which I Am Playing with Bees (2024), explores the relationship between species extinction and language. Playing with Bees won the Walt McDonald First Book Prize in Poetry from Texas Tech University Press, and was a finalist for the Audre Lorde Award in Poetry from The Publishing Triangle.
Fauth’s poems are published by The Academy of American Poets, POETRY Magazine, AGNI, Arc Poetry (Canada), Plumwood Mountain Journal (Australia), Notch Magazine, The Shore, and several queer and environmental poetry anthologies.
Her work has been supported by scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference, the Fulbright Program, and the Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice. Fauth has held residencies at Art Omi, Djerassi, and The Folger Shakespeare Library. She is a recurring botanical research artist at The Oak Spring Garden Foundation.
From 2020-2023, Fauth founded the award-winning erasure poetry initiative, The UNPRECEDENTED Project. It involved sending hundreds of torn book pages to anonymous strangers through the mail. As a pandemic-era digital humanities project, the UNPRECEDENTED poetry collection has been presented at Brown University, Johns Hopkins University, Georgetown University, Florida State University, UNC-Chapel Hill, and other institutions.
RK Fauth grew up in New York. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland.